Stinkwood, german ''Stinkholz'', french ''Bois Puant'', is the common name for a number of trees or shrubs which have
wood
Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin ...
or plant parts with an unpleasant odour, including:
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Anagyris foetida''; Southern Europe
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Bignonia callistegioides'' (cipó d'alho); Southern Brasil
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Celtis africana
''Celtis africana'', the white stinkwood, is a deciduous tree in the family Cannabaceae. Its habit ranges from a tall tree in forest to a medium-sized tree in bushveld and open country, and a shrub on rocky soil. It occurs in Yemen and over l ...
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white stinkwood); native to South Africa
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Celtis mildbraedii'' (Natal white stinkwood, red-fruited white-stinkwood); native to Tropical Africa
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Celtis timorensis''; native to South and
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of mainlan ...
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Coprosma foetidissima''; in New Zealand and extends South to the Auckland Islands
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Coprosma grandifolia
''Coprosma autumnalis'' or C. grandifolia according to earlier Colenso authority, (In Māori: kanono or raurēkau) is a native forest shrub of New Zealand. Its widespread in both the North and South Islands, and has the largest leaves of any Ne ...
''; New Zealand
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Coprosma putida''; endemic to
Lord Howe Island
Lord Howe Island (; formerly Lord Howe's Island) is an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, part of the Australian state of New South Wales. It lies directly east of mainland P ...
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Crateva tapia''; (Páo, Pau or tapiá d'alho) Brasil to Central America
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Cryptocarya latifolia'' (bastard stinkwood); South Africa
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Dysoxylum alliaceum'' (german Knoblauchbaum); Southeast Asia
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Eucryphia moorei''; Southeast Australia
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Fridericia elegans'' (cipó d'alho); Middle Eastern Brasil
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Foetidia clusioides''; native to Reunion and
Mauritius
Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label= Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It ...
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Foetidia mauritiana''; native to Reunion and Mauritius
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Frangula caroliniana
''Frangula caroliniana'', commonly called the Carolina buckthorn, is a deciduous upright shrub or small tree native to the southeastern, south-central, and mid-western parts of the United States, from Texas east to Florida and north as far as Ma ...
'' (Syn.: ''Rhamnus caroliniana''); Southern United States
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Gallesia integrifolia
''Gallesia'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Petiveriaceae. It only contains one species; ''Gallesia integrifolia'' (Spreng.) Harms
Its native range is western South America to Brazil. It is found in the countrie ...
'' (Syn.: ''Crateva gorarema'') (german Knoblauchbaum, Páo, Pau d'alho); Brasil to Peru
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Gustavia augusta''; from South America
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Gyrocarpus americanus''; pantropical tree in family Hernandiaceae
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Jacksonia furcellata'' (
grey stinkwood); native to Australia
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Jacksonia sternbergiana
''Jacksonia sternbergiana'', commonly known as stinkwood or green stinkwood, is a species of shrub or small tree that occurs in the south-west of Western Australia. It grows to between 1.5 and 5 metres high, has a weeping habit, and produces y ...
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green stinkwood); native to Australia
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Juniperus sabina'' (german Stinkholz); Middle Europe to Asia
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Lasianthus purpureus''; Indonesia
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Mansoa alliacea'' (cipó d'alho); Northern South America
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Nyssa sylvatica
''Nyssa sylvatica'', commonly known as tupelo, black tupelo, black gum or sour gum, is a medium-sized deciduous tree native to eastern North America from the coastal Northeastern United States and southern Ontario south to central Florida and e ...
''; eastern to southeastern United States
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Ocotea bullata
''Ocotea bullata'', (stinkwood or black stinkwood, af, Stinkhout, xh, Umhlungulu, zu, Umnukane) is a species of flowering tree native to South Africa. It produces very fine and valuable timber which was formerly much sought after to make fur ...
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black stinkwood, true stinkwood); native to South Africa
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Ocotea
''Ocotea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lauraceae. Many are evergreen trees with lauroid leaves.
There are over 520 species currently accepted within the genus, distributed mostly in tropical and subtropical areas of ...
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Ocotea foetens
''Ocotea foetens'', commonly called til or stinkwood is a species of tree in the family Lauraceae. It is evergreen and grows up to 40 m tall. It is a common constituent of the laurisilva forests of Madeira and the Canary Islands. Leaf fossils of ...
'' (Til, tilo), native to
Macaronesia
Macaronesia (Portuguese: ''Macaronésia,'' Spanish: ''Macaronesia'') is a collection of four volcanic archipelagos in the North Atlantic, off the coasts of Africa and Europe. Each archipelago is made up of a number of Atlantic oceanic islands ...
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Olax zeylanica'' (german Stinkholz); Sri Lanka, Bangladesh
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Olax stricta'' (german Stinkholz); Eastern Australia
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Owenia cepiodora
''Owenia cepiodora'' is a medium to large Australian tree in the family Meliaceae. It occurs in the rainforests of north eastern New South Wales and adjacent areas in Queensland. The habitat is mostly the drier Hoop Pine rainforests along the ...
'' (onionwood); Australia
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Pararchidendron pruinosum ''; Eastern Australia
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Piscidia carthagenensis''; Central America to Northern South America
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Petersianthus macrocarpus'' (bastard stinkwood); South Africa
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Pseudosmodingium perniciosum'' (Syn.: ''Rhus perniciosa''); Western Mexico
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Prunus africana
''Prunus africana'', the African cherry, has a wide distribution in Africa, occurring in montane regions of central and southern Africa and on the islands of Bioko, São-Tomé, Grande Comore, and Madagascar. It can be found at above sea level. I ...
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red stinkwood); native to montane Subsaharan Africa
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Rhus aromatica
''Rhus aromatica'', the fragrant sumac, is a deciduous shrub in the family Anacardiaceae native to North America.(1) (2) It is found in southern Canada (Alberta to Quebec) and nearly all of the lower 48 states except peninsular Florida.
Fragr ...
''; Eastern United States to Mexico and Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan
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Saprosma arborea''; Indonesia
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Scorodophloeus zenkeri'' (german Knoblauchrinde, garlic tree); Cameroon, Congo, Zaïre
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Seguieria americana'' (german Stinkholz, Knoblauchholz, as „Seguiera floribunda“, Páo, Pau or Cipó d'alho); Northern South America
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Sorbus aucuparia'' (german Stinkholz); Europe to Western Russia, Iran
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''; India to Southeast Asia
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Styphnolobium japonicum
''Styphnolobium japonicum'', the Japanese pagoda tree (also known as the Chinese scholar tree and pagoda tree; syn. ''Sophora japonica'') is a species of tree in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae.
It was formerly included withi ...
'' (Syn.: ''Macrotropis foetida''); from South China
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Sideroxylon foetidissimum''; Florida, South Mexico, Guatemala, Antilles
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Zieria arborescens''; native to Australia
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